There's A $50,000+ Bounty For The First Person To Outwit The iPhone Touch ID

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A group of security professionals and other assorted white hat "hackers" are running an old-fashioned honor-system contest. A couple dozen of them have pledged various prizes to the first person that can outwit the iPhone fingerprint security sensor, the feature Apple calls Touch ID.

They aren't looking for a software hack. They want to see someone reliably and repeatably outsmart the device by lifting fingerprints from, say, a beer mug. In other words, can Touch ID be tricked, rather than hacked?

They've launched a site called "istouchidhackedyet.com" where people have pledged to pay the winner various prizes. There are a lot of $100 pledges, but also Bitcoins, bottles of wine, tequila, and other goodies.

It's not an organized thing. It's up to the winner to get these folks to make good on their pledges.